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10 unusual facts about Rykodisc


Arnold Corns

The Arnold Corns versions appeared as bonus tracks on the Rykodisc CD re-release of The Man Who Sold the World (minus the spoken intro on "Dream").

In a Car

It wasn't on any Meat Puppets release until Rykodisc issued the song as a bonus track (with the entire first EP and many outtakes) on the 1999 reissue of the first LP, Meat Puppets.

Jess Klein

After independently releasing her first two albums, winning the Telluride Troubador Songwriting Contest, and garnering several Boston Music Award nominations, she was signed to Rykodisc in 2000 by then-president George Howard.

Justin Currie

It was subsequently re-titled What Is Love For and released on Rykodisc on 8 October 2007.

London Symphony Orchestra, Vol. I

In 1995, the album was combined with its successor, London Symphony Orchestra, Vol. 2 (1987), and re-released on a Rykodisc CD as London Symphony Orchestra Vol. 1 & 2.

London Symphony Orchestra, Vol. II

The two albums were later combined, and re-released on a Rykodisc CD as London Symphony Orchestra Vol. 1 & 2 (1995).

Meat Puppets II

Rykodisc reissued the album in 1999 with extra tracks and b-sides, including a cover of the Rolling Stones' Aftermath-era track "What To Do."

Nikolai Fraiture

The Time of the Assassins was released on January 27, 2009 on Rykodisc.

Oh Perilous World

It is a concept album and was released by the Filthy Bonnet Recording Co. with distribution through Rykodisc.

Rykodisc

Rykodisc, the first label to use two-sided tray cards, also housed its CDs in customized green jewel boxes; company president Rose wanted the trays to be the color of a Coca-Cola bottle.


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Eric Platz

Adrienne Young: Room To Grow (RykoDisc/AddieBelle Records, Nashville, TN, 2007)

Granary Music

Most of these masters have been leased through Granary to other labels, including Rykodisc and Yep Roc; however, Mould released his 2002 solo album Modulate and the Loudbomb CD directly through Granary.

Nadir of American race relations

Alan Lomax interview with Memphis Slim, Big Bill Broonzy and Sonny Boy Williamson on the album, Blues in the Mississippi Night, Rykodisc, 1990.

Porfirio Piña

Between January 2001 and May 2002, Porfirio joined Palm Pictures/Ryko and later Latino Music Corp where he was the Marketing Director, developing strategic sales, marketing and promotion plans for Carlos Manuel y Su Clan (Palm/Ryko), Fernando Villalona (LARAS & NARAS GRAMMY Nominee), Felix D'Oleo (LARAS GRAMMY Nominee), Angelito Villalona, Ramón Orlando and Swing Divino amongst others.

Season of Glass

The 1997 Rykodisc reissue added bonus tracks of the single "Walking on Thin Ice" and an a'cappella demo of "I Don't Know Why", recorded the day after Lennon's death.

The Best of Morphine: 1992–1995

These had to be omitted on the US release because The Night was released by DreamWorks, not Rykodisc, in North America.